Ruysdael, Jacob, a famous Dutch landscape-painter, born and died at Haarlem; few particulars of his life are known; his best pictures, to be seen in the galleries of Dresden, Berlin, Paris, &c., display a fine poetic spirit (1628‒1682).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Rutland * Ruyter, Michael de